03 December 2013

Winners of the Inaugural Sydney Food Bloggers Choice Awards were announced on Friday 29 November at Ruby & Rach Deli amongst an intimate mix of food bloggers, PR agencies, chefs, passionate foodies and nominees. Nominations were open from 1 Oct 2013 and closed 22 Nov 2013. The highest number of nominations won each category. Nominations with the same number of highest votes shared the win. 950 nominations were received from 44 food bloggers for 40 categories. Overall there were some clear winners like Gelato Messina for Favourite Gelato receiving 27 of the 37 nominations and Mamak for Favourite Roti receiving 22 of the 28 nominations. Other popular winners that received over 50% of the nominations in their category were El Jannah for Favourite Charcoal Chicken, Sparkle Cupcakery for Favourite Cupcakes and Hurricane's Grill for Favourite Ribs. Popular categories that received the highest number of nominations from food bloggers was Favourite Coffee, Favourite Gelato, Favourite Macaron, Favourite Pizza, Favourite Pho, Favourite Ramen and Favourite Yum Cha. Hong Ha and Marrickville Pork Roll shared the award for Favourite Banh Mi while other clear winners were Malay-Chinese Takeaway for Favourite Laksa, Bills for Favourite Pancakes, The Morrison for Favourite Oysters and Gumshara Ramen for Favourite Ramen.
Double winners were El Jannah for Favourite Charcoal Chicken and Favourite Falafel, El Loco for Favourite Hot Dog and Favourite Taco, and Sepia taking out Favourite Degustation and Favourite Hatted Restaurant in Sydney. A notable close second place by only one vote goes to Restaurant Atelier for Favourite Degustation, Baroque/La Renaissance for Favourite Macarons, and Campos and Circa Espresso for Favourite Coffee. Adriano Zumbo took out the award for Favourite Macaron and Coffee Alchemy won the caffeine hearts for Favourite Coffee. Other popular winners were Brooklyn Boy Bagels for Favourite Bagel, Chur Burger for Favourite Cheeseburger, Jackie M for Favourite Char Kway Teow, Temasek for Favourite Chicken Rice, Bourke Street Bakery for Favourite Croissant, The Pie Tin for Favourite Pie and Ruby & Rach Deli for Favourite Reuben Sandwich. I'm personally looking forward to checking out Pho Tau Bay which won Favourite Pho and Via Napoli Pizzeria which won Favourite Pizza. For those looking for a good Japanese pancake you might find it at Jugemu & Shimbashi that took out the title of Favourite Okonomiyaki. Favourite Duck Pancakes was won by BBQ King and for those looking for a good churros you'll find them at MoVida Sydney which was the winner amongst nine places nominated.

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Simon Leong

Passionate Sydney food blogger in search of the best dishes around the world and writing reviews to whet your appetite. Feel free to email me your recommendations of where to eat simonleong[at]hotmail[dot]com